Part-Time CTO • Available for Q4 2026

Your startup needs a CTO, not just more code.

PT-CTO is the fractional tech leadership studio behind 140+ SaaS, AI and fintech scale-ups. We plug in as your Part-Time CTO: audit in 10 days, roadmap in 21, shipping velocity x2.3 in 90 days.

Get CTO Audit — $490 →Who is PT-CTO?

140+
Ventures scaled

$820M
Client funding raised

12 yrs
Avg. CTO experience

★ SaaS★ FinTech★ HealthTech★ AI / LLM★ Marketplaces★ DevTools

$PT-CTO fractional CTO team leading product engineering$

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Velocity +237%
DEPLOY FREQ • DORA ELITE

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SOC2 in 45 days
SECURITY • COMPLIANCE

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// 01 — What we do

CTO firepower on-demand

Stop guessing. A senior CTO embeds in your Slack, standups and board meetings 2-3 days/week and owns technology outcomes.

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01 / AUDIT

10-Day CTO Audit

Code, cloud, security, team velocity. 60-point inspection with risk map, cost leaks and quick wins. Loved by founders and VCs before Seed to Series B.

02 / LEAD

Fractional CTO Leadership

Roadmap, hiring, 1:1s, architecture reviews. We run engineering while you run business. OKRs, DORA metrics, predictable shipping.

03 / SCALE

SaaS & Cloud Architecture

From MVP spaghetti to multi-tenant scale: AWS/GCP redesign, Kubernetes, event-driven, -42% cloud bill average. 99.99% uptime playbooks.

04 / AI

AI & LLM Integration

RAG, copilots, agents, evals. We ship production AI in 4-6 weeks with guardrails, cost control and no hallucinated disasters.

05 / DILIGENCE

Investor Due Diligence

Technical DD for VCs and acquirers in 7 days: scalability, IP, security, team depth. 80+ reports, zero failed deals due to tech.

06 / TEAM

Hire & Coach Teams

We hire your first 5 engineers, set career ladders, kill micromanagement. Build a culture that ships without the CTO in the room.

// 02 — About PT-CTO

We are the CTO you can't hire full-time yet.

PT-CTO (pt-cto.com) was founded by ex-CTOs from SaaS unicorns and fintech scale-ups. The idea is simple: world-class technology leadership shouldn't cost $320k/year + equity from day one.

We act as your Part-Time CTO: part strategist, part architect, part coach. We have led teams of 4 to 120, migrated monoliths at 2am, passed SOC2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and sat in boardrooms explaining why rewriting everything in Rust is a bad idea.

✅ 14 senior CTOs, no juniors

✅ US + EU timezones overlap

✅ Hands-on: PRs, ADRs, RFCs

✅ Vendor-neutral, no kickbacks

Our manifesto: “Clarity over cleverness. Boring tech that scales. Teams over heroes. Ship every week.” If your roadmap slips, churn rises, or engineers quit — we fix the system, not just symptoms.

How we work Proof & numbers

$About PT-CTO fractional CTO team$

Marcus T. — Founder, PT-CTO
Ex-CTO, 3 exits • 18 years building SaaS • Austin / Lisbon

// 03 — Playbook

From chaos to elite in 90 days

Deep Audit

Days 1-10: interviews, code scan, infra cost analysis, security sweep. You get a 40-page CTO Brief + Loom walkthrough.

Roadmap Sprint

Days 11-21: prioritized 90-day roadmap, hiring plan, architecture decision records. Board-ready one-pager included.

Embed & Ship

Weeks 4-8: CTO in your standups, code reviews, unblocks team, ships 2-3 quick wins, cuts cloud waste.

Scale & Exit

Weeks 9-12+: metrics green, team autonomous. We hire your full-time CTO and hand over — or stay as advisor.

// 04 — Proof

Numbers founders brag about

AVG. CLIENT OUTCOME • 2023-2026

-42% cloud
+237% deploy
99.99% uptime

Fintech SaaS cut AWS from $48k to $27k/mo while doubling traffic. HealthTech passed HIPAA in 38 days. Marketplace went from 1 deploy/month to 18/week.

“PT-CTO replaced a $280k hire. In 3 weeks we had clarity, in 2 months velocity. Our Series A DD took 4 days instead of 4 weeks.”

— Sarah L., CEO SaaS (Series A, $12M)
★★★★★ VERIFIED CLIENT

“They killed our rewrite fantasy and saved us 6 months. Refactored incrementally, kept customers happy.”

— Diego R., Founder Fintech
★★★★★ VERIFIED CLIENT

“Our AI copilot went live in 5 weeks with evals and guardrails. Churn -18%. Best money spent.”

— Amir K., CPO AI Startup
★★★★★ VERIFIED CLIENT

// 05 — Pricing

Simple plans, senior only

No juniors, no outsourcing black box. Cancel monthly.

SPARK / AUDIT

$490

One-time, 10 days

✓ 60-point tech audit
✓ Cloud cost teardown
✓ Security quick scan
✓ 40-page brief + Loom
✓ Board Q&A call

Start audit

★ MOST POPULAR / PART-TIME CTO

$3,900/mo

2-3 days/week embedded

✓ Everything in Audit
✓ Roadmap + OKRs ownership
✓ Lead hiring & 1:1s
✓ Architecture reviews
✓ Slack + standups + board
✓ AI & scaling playbooks

Hire my CTO

SCALE / INTERIM CTO

$7,500/mo

Full-time interim, 3-6 mo

✓ Full-time leadership
✓ Turnaround troubled teams
✓ M&A / DD support
✓ SOC2 / HIPAA owner
✓ Hire full-time successor

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// 07 — FAQ

Questions? Answered.

Everything founders ask before hiring a Part-Time CTO. Still unsure? Ping us.

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What is a Part-Time / Fractional CTO?

A senior technology leader working 2-3 days/week. You get strategy, architecture oversight and team leadership without full-time cost. Perfect from pre-seed to Series B.

How fast can you start?

Discovery call in 48h, audit kickoff in 7 days. Embedded leadership from week 2. We work in your timezone (US + EU overlap).

Will you write code?

Yes — but wisely. We review PRs, write ADRs and critical prototypes, but our job is to make your team ship without us, not to become a bottleneck.

Do you help with fundraising DD?

Absolutely. 80+ technical due diligences passed. We prep data rooms, answer VC tech questionnaires and join partner calls.

What stack do you cover?

Node, Python, Go, Ruby, React, Next.js, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Postgres, Kafka, LLM/RAG stacks. Vendor-neutral advice.

Can you replace our CTO or VP Eng?

We can act as interim CTO, coach your current lead, or hire and onboard your full-time CTO in 90 days with a clean handover.

// 08 — CONTACT • RESPONSE IN 24H

Let's fix your tech in 10 days.

Tell us about your stack, team size and biggest blocker. Get a free 30-min CTO consultation + audit outline. No pitch decks, just signal.

✉ [email protected]◷ Mon–Fri • 9-18 CT